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- From: James Morris <jim@growth.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 2 IDE on A1200.
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:12:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <9209021243.NA725483@growth.demon.co.uk>
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- Simon Dick <sidick@essex.ac.uk> wrote:
- > On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, John Kennedy wrote:
- >
- > > rcolbert@oasis.novia.net (Bob Colbert) wrote:
- > >
- > > >Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- > > >: You are supposed to be able to use 2 IDE drives on an A1200. How do I do
- > > >: it. Note that I only want to do this temporarily.
- > > >:
- > >
- > > >There should be jumpers on the drives, you need to jumper one as a
- > > >"master" and one as a "slave".
- > >
- > > If using two 2.5 inch IDE drives then good luck -- setting one up as
- > > master and one as slave is almost impossible.
- > >
- > > If using two 3.5 inch drives: don't do it! The IDE port is unbuffered
- > > and athiough one drive works well, two is risking it. Plus the power
- > > consumption of course.
- >
- > Yes, but how about connecting one 2.5" drive and one 3.5" drive to the
- > 1200? It's possible, I know all the jumper setting, but has anyone seen a
- > cable that would allow me to do that?
- >
- > Simon Dick sidick@essex.ac.uk
- > IRC: SimD
- >
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- I`m planning on doing exactly the same thing , when I have some cash
- I got a cable from Visage Computers , to run my 80meg quantum and a
- big 3.5" .
-
- Cost 25 quid , but be warned , I had to phone many times to chase it
- up and it took about 3 weeks to arrive when end of the week delivery
- was promised :(
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- James Morris - jim@growth.demon.co.uk (Growth , The Musical Apocalypse)
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